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Old 02-13-2017, 04:00 AM
 
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Is it way out in the boonies? Who has more info. regarding the so called "free land" if I move to Alaska?
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Old 02-13-2017, 04:56 AM
 
Location: Kenai
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You're about 50 years too late. No free land available.
But there are some cheap starter homes here for $215,000. 1000 sq feet 3 bed 2 bath on .29 acre city lot. No jobs now though, and projected to lose 8,000 jobs statewide this year. Second year of a recession.
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Old 02-13-2017, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Wasilla, AK
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You're about 50 years too late. No free land available.
Yep. This. Most of the state is in federal control and they don't give anything free. The state offers up some remote (as in no access) parcels occasionally for cheap, but not free. But you'll spend a pretty penny to get to it and get building materials to it. The rest is owned by Alaska Native corporations and a little bit is in private hands. But none of it is free.
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Old 02-13-2017, 12:19 PM
 
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Just curious, where do you keep hearing about this?
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Old 02-13-2017, 05:59 PM
 
Location: Naptowne, Alaska
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Probably some good deals in Anderson? Maybe not free...but might be dirt cheap!
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Old 02-13-2017, 06:20 PM
 
Location: Not far from Fairbanks, AK
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Probably some good deals in Anderson? Maybe not free...but might be dirt cheap!
Rance,

Maybe some wet dirt near Arderson would be cheap (near a swamp)
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Old 02-19-2017, 09:32 AM
 
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Maybe this poster should ask the Brown family about free land and how to live like proper bush people. I'd talk to them at their real home in Texas
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Old 02-21-2017, 06:14 PM
 
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Probably some good deals in Anderson? Maybe not free...but might be dirt cheap!
Are there legal easements to major road ways? I have heard there are right of way issues with some rural land.
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Old 02-21-2017, 10:20 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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From Wikipedia-
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ended homesteading;[22][23] by that time, federal government policy had shifted to retaining control of western public lands. The only exception to this new policy was in Alaska, for which the law allowed homesteading until 1986.[22]
The last claim under this Act was made by Ken Deardorff for 80 acres (32 ha) of land on the Stony River in southwestern Alaska. He fulfilled all requirements of the homestead act in 1979 but did not receive his deed until May 1988. He is the last person to receive title to land claimed under the Homestead Acts
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Old 02-22-2017, 11:53 AM
 
Location: Wasilla, AK
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Are there legal easements to major road ways? I have heard there are right of way issues with some rural land.
In most cases, any roadway could be over 100 miles away with no legal access. So you either fly in or in the winter take a snowmachine in over the frozen tundra and swamps.
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